EY and P&G alliance

EY and P&G help organizations achieve higher levels of manufacturing performance by improving their end-to-end supply chain operations strategy to grow and optimize their business. Throughout our 10+ year relationship we’ve created over 400 smart factories with US$15b in savings.

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The COVID-19 pandemic forced countless companies to rethink how they work in order to optimize productivity as well as employee wellbeing. Fortunately, one dairy co-op was already making progress in several areas prior to the pandemic through an EY-led implementation of P&G’s Integrated Work System (IWS).

By maintaining IWS philosophies of zero loss and 100% employee ownership during pandemic times, the dairy co-op was able to establish resiliency among both employees and processes. As a result, the company achieved record results in both delivery and profits in 2020 while demonstrating it can withstand even the most challenging situations.

IWS for Dairy Co-op

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Following a six-year span of acquisitions, a dairy manufacturer founds itself struggling to optimize its robust manufacturing footprint. With a need to meet rising demand and deliver a return on their series of investments, they needed to look inward to find new process efficiencies that could both improve output and cut costs.

After analyzing the situation, EY identified an opportunity to achieve the manufacturer’s goals via P&G’s Integrated Work System (IWS). See how deployment in just one plant was able to deliver their desired efficiency improvements and how a system-wide rollout of IWS put them on the path to optimal efficiency and profitability.

IWS for Dairy Manufacturer

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In need of efficiency improvements across 40 North American plants, a baked goods producer looked to P&G’s Integrated Work System (IWS) for help. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic put the rollout in jeopardy as EY teams were expected to be on site for this phase of the implementation. With a decision to make between delaying implementation or doing it 100% remotely, the baked goods producer chose to move full steam ahead.

Despite the nonstandard approach, EY mobilized quickly using the playbook from previous successful remote client engagements. With the help of newly installed on-site software and cameras and EY’s Smart Deployment Console (SDC), the producer was able to go live within the standard 13-week implementation timeline and realize immediate results.

IWS for Baked Goods Producer

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Despite ongoing investments in supply chain and manufacturing excellence programs companies are struggling to achieve a sustainable breakthrough in their performance and productivity. EY and P&G have combined their supply chain and manufacturing excellence capabilities to bring a significantly different approach to attaining improved supply chain performance and higher levels of manufacturing reliability.

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Improved manufacturing reliability

P&G’s Integrated Work Systems (IWS) is a proprietary way of improving manufacturing reliability, reducing costs and elevating productivity. IWS is a disruptive way of working predicated on two primary principles:

A drive to zero losses
100 percent employee ownership

End-to-end supply chain synchronization

P&G’s Supply Network Operations (SNO) is a proprietary set of tools and enablers that offers an integrated approach to supply chain transformation. The methodology extends from supplier to customer and enables an integrated approach to supply chain planning, warehousing and logistics, and customer service.

The EY and P&G alliance combines IWS and SNO capabilities with EY’s global supply chain and manufacturing performance improvement experience, and P&G certified consultants, to help clients make sustainable improvements in their manufacturing and transform their end to end supply chain.

P&G’s Integrated Work System (IWS) is a proprietary way of improving manufacturing reliability, reducing costs and elevating productivity. IWS is a disruptive way of working predicated on two primary principles: the drive to zero losses and 100 percent employee ownership. The EY and P&G alliance combines the Integrated Work System with the global EY manufacturing performance improvement experience and P&G certified consultants to help clients improve performance via sustainable change and transformation.
The smart factory can help manufacturers improve performance in a dynamic, digital world.

As digital disruption cuts deeper and becomes more pervasive, the pressure on manufacturers to achieve and sustain higher levels of performance continues to intensify. Manufacturers know that they need to transform their operations to compete and grow in the coming years, and that the smart factory is the path to that future.

The smart factory is an environment in which cyber-physical systems monitor the physical processes of the factory, provide analysis, and automate or support controls and decision-making to improve manufacturing efficiency and effectiveness. By boosting overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), the smart factory can help manufacturers increase revenue and defer capital investment. It also can improve workforce productivity and morale, and substantially reduce operational costs.
SNO offers a comprehensive suite of know-how combined with a proven transformation methodology to accelerate integrated supply chain transformation across Planning, Distribution, Logistics, and Customer Service. This includes:

Supply Chain Foundations, which provide core foundations for Supply SNO processes, including organizational design, work systems, and foundational work processes and roles.
Advanced tools and automation, which offers innovative techniques to enhance or automate existing work processes
The Run-to-Target (RTT) Transformation Accelerator provides deployment methodology to achieve rapid results and create sustainable change by empowering the workforce.
Achieving Integrated Supply Chain Excellence

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Craig Lyjak

EY Global Smart Factory Leader

Operational Excellence thought leader. Digital innovator. Passionate developer of people. Foodie. Father.

Cincinnati, USA

Sean Harapko

EY Americas Supply Chain Transformation and Global Supply Chain RPA leader

Passionate about friends and family both in and out of work. Husband and father surrounded by girls. Outdoor adventure seeker. Big supporter of the military and military community.

Baltimore, USA

Regenia Sanders

EY Consulting US-Central Supply Chain and Operations Leader

Passionate about empowering women in engineering and other data-driven fields. Auburn University graduate. World traveler and adventure enthusiast.

Atlanta, USA

Morgan Malone

Ernst & Young LLP Americas Consulting Supply Chain and Operations Principal

Transformative manufacturing leader in consumer products. Building smart factories. Improving lives. Family man.

Chicago, USA

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